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Scientist alumna honoured at Crescent
November 20, 2019
Dr Caitriona Jackman was presented with the '2019 Roll of Honour' award at the Crescent College Past Pupils Union Dinner for her contribution to astronomy and astrophysics
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NCI: social justice in the docklands
November 4, 2019
The National College of Ireland, which emerged out of the Jesuit College of Industrial Relations, addresses educational disadvantage among marginalised families
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Building mind, body and soul
October 30, 2019
Former student Jack Kavanagh, who lives with a spinal cord injury, spoke about the three pillars of mind, body and soul at the third Wellness Day in Clongowes Wood College...
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Kairos retreat – ‘love in action’
October 22, 2019
Students of Clongowes Wood College SJ reported on their life-changing experience in Dromantine Retreat and Conference Centre, Newry
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Newman’s liberal education: useful or useless?
October 10, 2019
Professor Ian Ker elucidates John Henry Newman's idea of a university at event to mark impending canonisation
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Crescent girls get taste of contemplative life
October 9, 2019
Students from Crescent College Limerick SJ went to Glencairn to live and work with Ireland's only Cistercian contemplative nuns
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Milltown Park Library moves to DCU
October 3, 2019
The Jesuits have transferred the Milltown Park library to DCU in a partnership agreement. "It will be a living library," says the Irish Jesuit Provincial
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Clongowes hosts Blessed John Sullivan exhibition
September 10, 2019
Bishop Denis Nulty launched an exhibition of the 'People's Saint' as part of National Heritage Week in Clongowes Wood College SJ, County Kildare
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Strong Irish presence at Jesuit studies symposium
August 2, 2019
Participants at an archivist conference in Boston College heard about four-hundred-year-old letters of St Ignatius found inside the columns of an altar to Our Lady in 2016
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The spiritual dimension of design
July 10, 2019
Professor Stuart Walker, Chair of Design for Sustainability at Lancaster University, speaks to Pat Coyle about a more explicit consideration of values in the work of designers today
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‘Not Christian, not Catholic.’
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Is the universe ‘done and dusted’?
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‘Dangerous as hell’
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